Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Arizona vs. Texas FET

This is my 100th blog post! I've now been blogging my infertility journey for three years. Crazy how fast time goes...
We now have more decisions to make regarding the FET. *sigh*
I had been calling my RE in Arizona for TWO weeks-leaving messages for someone to call me back so that I could get the process started for transporting my embryos to Texas. Who knew that only after calling TODAY and expressing how frustrated I was that NO ONE was calling me back, I finally was called. Martha, who was my IVF nurse two years ago, called me and said that it was the responsibility of my RE in Texas to figure out transportation. Uh, that's not what I was told by my TX RE! The RE here said they don't contract with a national shipping company-only local. How nice. I was told that it would cost around $1500 to ship my babies to TX. (Three years ago when I did this, I only had two embryos to ship and it cost us over $700.) Martha said that I would be better off doing the FET in AZ. She also told me that it would cost $1645 for the FET. $1645 in AZ OR $4500 in TX+$1500 shipping? Not a hard decision considering cost, though logistically it's much harder. To sweeten the pot, she told me that I could do all of my monitoring in TX (as long as my TX RE is willing-he will loose out on the $4500. The FET would still be in January...I have until Tuesday to figure it all out. I go in Monday to my TX RE to do the water u/s and uterine lining check. I'll talk to my doc then and report back!

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